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9. To obtain, however, the results which we offer you, two conditions must be fulfilled. These are embraced in the words “confidence,” and “work.” Few things are so fatal to achievement as doubt and self-distrust. You may climb safely to any height on a steeplejack’s ladder so long as you retain absolute assurance of your own power, but the moment you begin to feel nervous of yourself, giddiness may supervene and you are in danger of falling. Therefore we say, start upon this course of training with boldness, trusting us and trusting yourself. You have mental abilities far greater than you are aware of. Possibly you may suppose that you have a hopelessly bad memory. As a matter of fact, you most probably have a normal memory, and a normal memory is a very good memory indeed. The defect of which you complain is not in your memory but in your training and use of it. The phenomenal memories of which you sometimes hear are only normal memories which, either accidentally or scientifically, have been trained aright. Feel certain in yourself that however unlikely it may appear to you at the moment, you have the material, and we have the means of shewing you how to employ it to your utmost advantage.